Archive for category: Processors

AMD A8-3850 Llano Review
/ July 9, 2011 6:32 pm

AMD A8-3850 Llano Review

Llano is an interesting inception. After reading all the initial reviews it sounded like Llano as a concept was great but primarily suited for the mobile market. There is certainly some truth to this argument but I still don’t buy it. The mobile market has been supposed to kill the desktop for the last almost 10 years and arguably, it [...]

/ June 23, 2011 6:04 am

AMD’s A8-3500M Fusion APU

Computer chips become more complex over time. We know this in our bones by now, in various ways, whether it’s watching ever more functionality get crammed into smart phones or the constant drumbeat being sounded for, well, the constant drumbeat of Moore’s Law. In recent years, we’ve watched the CPU rise from a single core to two, four, and even [...]